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Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, a friend and former student (see box page 28), describes the triumph another way. "He does his homework," says Allon, who also admires Kissinger's "mastery of detail, quick mind and acute sense of timing." The success of the Secretary's "chain reaction" diplomacy is that Kissinger "manages to make you feel that he is listening to you with great understanding, and yet he is never soft...
...their problems, clients (the word "patient" is never used) have a full curriculum of programs from which to choose. For "pre-orgasmic" women (those who have never achieved orgasm), there is a ten-session course in which they discuss their problems with female counselors, view movies, and receive homework assignments in such subjects as masturbation technique and use of fantasy in sex. Of the 150 women who have taken this program, 90% were eventually able to achieve orgasm...
...done its homework well in its effort to keep KP&L from getting the land needed for the plant by eminent domain. The group has prepared a 51-page briefing for the Pottawatomie County District Court which must decide soon whether to issue an injunction preventing KP&L from taking the farmers' land...
...have only half a brain." The long climb began in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1937 when Sendak was nine. He and his older brother Jack wrote and illustrated books that they hand-lettered, decorated and bound with tape. By the time he was in high school, he was illustrating homework instead of doing it. Afternoons and weekends were spent working for All American Comics, where he adapted Mutt and Jeff strips for comic books...
Jackson is not only determined, he is also effective-a fact that is recognized by allies and opponents alike. He does his homework; he is earnest and honest. He is nothing if not himself: plainspoken, no shaggy locks, rimless glasses or any other concession to youth or fashion. He operates from an almost impregnable position in the Senate, where he is chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and a member of the Armed Services Committee, the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, and the Government Operations Committee...